[meteorite-list] anyone know Steven Curry?

From: MEM <mstreman53_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:42:57 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <888037.41222.qm_at_web55202.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

A couple points which should be obvious to an informed meteorist : there is no
realistic physical mechanism for a "strewn" field of planetary meteorites.
Escape velocities/ejecta dynamics limit the range of "just right" sized
objects. Too large and they don't reach escape velocity: too small and they
totally burn up on entry.

Secondly, To my knowledge there is no place on the moon where "all known lunar
meteorite types" would be found in one place. Each stone in the "strewn
field(sic)" would have to have been launched from separate impact sites,
rendezvoused in lunar orbit and left in unison for earths orbit. This could
only happen I guess if the snails and crickets they contain(sic) were able to
steer the swarm. The only component not mentioned was blue cheese.

Curry is adroit in throwing down technical terms in mynah bird fashion but it is
clear that he doesn't grasp the real definitions in the examples he cites. I am
baffled that he is able to extract any procedural information from Nininiger's
works as I recall his only papers dealt with documenting the circumstances of
recovery and he himself did no analytical work. Plus Harvey to our knowledge
never saw a lunarite.

I looked at one of his brecciated stones at eBay auction and it was a single
lithology with minor fractures but no unaligned, out-of-place fragments which
could remotely qualify as a breccias: monomict, polymict or
"anything-else-mict". Another auction--The Impact Melt Breccia, I can't quiet
wrap my brain around how he reached that conclusion either. Seems a Lunar IMB
analog would look more like a glassy howardite if it could exist at all. I'm
not persuaded that an LIMB could first form then survive ejection forces.


Reminds me a lot of the guy who used to harass the Smithsonian with bizarrely
interpreted objects he dug up in his back yard...including the Barbie torso he
claimed proved the existence of a lilliputian race of humans in New Jersey or
delusions to that effect. Curry is delusional and the constructs of his psyche
will never accept that these aren't meteorites. It is a pathology and I assure
all, that we/you won't cure him via emails.


 Finally I believe there was a good reason his packages were returned unopened
if they were in fact returned unopen. Distort the facts in one aspect of the
story and you've likely do so in other places. Leave out critical information
...ditto.


Elton


----- Original Message ----
> From: Ken Newton <magellon.ken at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] anyone know Steven Curry?
>
> Don,
> Both are highly inaccurate.
> I see my comment criticizing the station's research and Curry was erased.
> Well, here is more in Mr. Curry's own words:
> <http://meteorite-identification.com/ebay/SSeller/uncometeorites/email.html>
>
> Best,
> ken
Received on Sat 30 Oct 2010 09:42:57 PM PDT